How to change text color of the part of the TextView?

Question

I have simple textView controler on my application.
On this textView i set the text "123456789" - the text color is black.

I want that the three last digit ( 789 ) will be shown with red text color.

Is there any simple way to do it without using two textView controls
(one will contain "123456" in black and second will contain "789" in red )

Answer 1

You can use this method

public static final Spannable getColoredString(Context context, CharSequence text, int color) {
        Spannable spannable = new SpannableString(text);
        spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(color), 0, spannable.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        return spannable;
    }

then later you call is by using

textview.append(getColoredString(this, "Hi!", ContextCompact.getColor(this, R.color.red)));
textview.append(getColoredString(this, "User", ContextCompact.getColor(this, R.color.green)));

Answer 2

Try This:

Set TextView as a HTML using SpannableTextView

String text = "<font color='black'>123456</font><font color='red'>789</font>";
textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(text), TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);